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Is It To Be Concerned About Difficulty In Child To Identify Color?
my 18 months old grand child ,who talks a lot, very sensibly and with no grammatical mistakes and has a vocabulary of 389 words , always seems to be making a mistake when it comes to colours. We are wondering if she could be colour blind. Is there some simple way to test that. Thank you.
Wed, 28 Oct 2015
Hi...by what you quote I feel that your suspicions might be right. But it is too early for a 18 month old to identify all colors correctly.
It is very simple to test for this. There are charts called Ishiharas charts. There will be a number imprinted and a normal person and a color blind will read different numbers. But for an 18 month old kid it is difficult to identify the number. I suggest you get in touch with an ophthalmologist.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
It is very simple to test for this. There are charts called Ishiharas charts. There will be a number imprinted and a normal person and a color blind will read different numbers. But for an 18 month old kid it is difficult to identify the number. I suggest you get in touch with an ophthalmologist.
Regards - Dr. Sumanth
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